On 28/11/13 13:15, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Thought I might show you what I've been working on for the last year or
so. :)
http://cycle.travel/ is a new everyday cycling website for Britain and
it won't surprise you to learn it has lots of OSM mapping in there.
Click on 'Map' and you'll find
On 28/11/13 20:39, Dudley Ibbett wrote:
It also seems the routing software was directing the user along muddy
bridleways and grotty gravel paths! when then set it to avoid narrow
trails and also unpaved roads. It is a bit disappointing as previous
articles that have mentioned OSM have been
One of my little hopes (which I'm very very slowly attacking) is to have
OSM have all the walls and fences and suchlike to the same standard as
OS (them being very useful to walkers and suchlike).
I noticed that lots of fields, for example in
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 11:15 +0100, Ed Loach wrote:
I can't post to list at moment (stupid ISP) so am sending offlist
reply. I use landuse=farmland for the land (usually in areas greater
than a single field) and then add barrier=hedge or barrier=fence as
appropriate (I've not generally
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 10:24 +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
On 30 April 2013 09:38, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote:
Am I the only one that has been drawing walls and not fields?
It's nice
to have fields as individual logical units, but they're
defined
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 13:03 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
barrier=wall is very common in the areas that interest me (the
lakes),
and very useful info to walkers too.
For info, barrier=wall is currently also rendered:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.04915lon=-1.68855zoom=16layers=M
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 13:35 +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
On 30 April 2013 12:32, Henry Gomersall h...@cantab.net wrote:
Does meadow mean grazing land? Do we define high fell land as
meadow
as well when it's used for grazing sheep?
Perhaps a landuse
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 13:48 +0100, Henry Gomersall wrote:
Yeah, I had a look, but I can't see anything about mountainous pasture
land. The issue is land that is very clearly strongly influenced by
the
presence of animals, but isn't farmland as such. meadow is probably
acceptable, but doesn't
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 12:06 +0100, Will Phillips wrote:
If this data can be used I only plan to use it to supplement ground
surveys where signage is missing or ambiguous.
It's additional information to ground surveys and should independently
recorded. Rights of way are distinct from path on the
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 18:52 +, Andy Street wrote:
when someone builds a house over a public right of way
Does that happen often? Is there not some requirement to then knock the
house down again if it's blocking a right of way?
hen
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On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 10:02 +, Philip Barnes wrote:
Field boundaries will need a survey, to ensure they still exist
before they are traced.
Through the 70s to the 90s a lot were ripped out to create larger
fields.
Presumably one can do a check with Bing? (obv not as good as a survey,
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 13:16 +0100, Andy Street wrote:
While I believe that this data release is a good thing may I take this
opportunity to remind people that legality is not always reality. If
you
intend to use this dataset then please do a ground survey to ensure
that
the path actually
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 11:15 +0100, Andrew Chadwick wrote:
On 21/05/12 19:10, Rob Nickerson wrote:
We use opposite to indicate that cycles can travel against the
flow of
traffic on a one-way street, but on a two-way street you would use
cycleway:right=lane to signify that there is a cycle
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 10:15 +, Peter Miller wrote:
I have just added a new coastline VMD comparison map to ITO Map which
focuses on high water, low water from VMD, coastline from OSM and also
tidal and non-tidal rivers.
http://www.itoworld.com/map/189
Are all those red squiggles on the
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 10:29 +, Nick Austin wrote:
I've not seen this before on Bing Images but it was bound to happen
sooner or later:
hmmm, what should we map that as?
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On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:15 +, Bogus Zaba wrote:
Nice idea. Not sure about a spree but I just tagged three
close-to-motorway pubs known to me
in the Wirral/Chester area with the requisite food=yes tag.
Perhaps we could do crowd source stars along the line of Michelin ;)
hen
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:50 +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
If I've understood things correctly, the CTs (in particular Clause 2)
go further than ODbL compatibility, and require you to have additional
rights to grant to OSMF on your contributions. My reading of clause 2
is that it
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:30 +, Peter Miller wrote:
Personally I would prefer a single linear way for streams rather than
the area 'river-bank' approach which the OS use
The 'river-bank' approach has been exceptionally useful to me at times
when trying to micro-navigate. Why would it ever be
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 11:32 +, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:30 +, Peter Miller wrote:
On reflection possibly we should use river-bank as that has more
information in it, but recommend that anyone importing does a
'bridge
cleanup' at the same
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 11:48 +, Phil Endecott wrote:
You are welcome to take a copy of this data, if you would like it.
I am very interested in this data. I can host it if that's useful to
people (assuming the traffic doesn't become crazy!).
Cheers,
Henry
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 21:37 +, Graham Jones wrote:
The map tiles for the canal map I just generated take up 2.4GB (down
to zoom level 14). I just extracted the canal data from the database
(lines, points and polygons) and as a simple text file it was less
than 57MB. Gzip compression took
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:02 +, Chris Saunter wrote:
Pre-generating tiles for every concievable view of the OSM dataset is
not a very efficient way of dealing with different people wanting to
view different geographic areas in different styles.
Why can this not be done (to a reasonable
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:00 +, Graham Jones wrote:
I think you are describing what my examples do - for example the map
at http://maps.webhop.net/topo uses a simple base map and the
OpenLayers javascript program running in the web browser draws the
selectable overlays on top of it - the
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 01:49 -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I think, ultimately, Sustrans' internal semantics shouldn't really
concern
us documenting the system from outside (even those of us who also
happen to
be rangers ;) ).
Are the cycle routes representative of what is on the ground,
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 12:03 +0100, Frankie Roberto wrote:
There's clearly a lag in the time it takes to update the legal rights
of way, hence the situation of seeing two paths on the map. Pretty
confusing, although I'm not sure what could be done about it (would it
be better to only show the
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 21:33 +0100, John Robert Peterson wrote:
So the question is -- where do we get the first points from? There is
one very old and well known building right in the middle of the area,
and there are a number of land marks around, these may be usable, but
how do I know their
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:57 +0100, Craig Loftus wrote:
As another thought; I believe it has been mentioned before that the OS
thinks that OSM could fill a valuable role in keeping footpaths
up-to-date (as the OS don't)... previous discussions on the list
seemed to reveal some uncertainty
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 11:28 +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote:
The data looks quite interesting especially with all the layers.
Can anyone advise the best way of playing with ESRI data?
Henry
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On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 07:13 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
The other activity around here is 'aerial', such as microlight and hot
air
ballooning, and in those cases CHANGES to fied boundaries - which
these days are
not as stable as even OS would seem to imply - are something that
would be very
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 17:25 +0100, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
If someone who is completely new to OSM sees the streets in their area
complete, they may assume the map is complete and there's nothing for
them to do.
As a lurker, and someone that would be keen to contribute, can I suggest
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 17:26 +0100, Jason Cunningham wrote:
The detail for water is excellent and may be the most 'detailed'
vector data OS is going to provide. It's far better than the OSM
community could achieve with GPSr's and aerial image tracing.
Do you know how OS do the water detail?
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:07 +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
Basically: please don't break the map :-)
perhaps a stupid question... Is there no version control? I couldn't
find anything on the wiki about it.
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